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MS is certainly trying to play the new cool, but the DNA remains the same DNA from the '80s & '90s. Don't be fooled: A Leopard cannot change its shorts.
by mikro2nd 6y ago
MS is certainly trying to play the new cool, but the DNA remains the same DNA from the '80s & '90s. Don't be fooled: A Leopard cannot change its shorts.
- smt88 6y ago> DNA remains the same DNA from the '80s & '90s It literally doesn't. All the leadership from that time has retired, the revenue sources are different, and even the business models are different (subscription vs. upfront for many services). > Don't be fooled: A Leopard cannot change its shorts. Someone should tell this to all the large companies started by or tied to Nazis (Porsche, IBM, Volkswagen, Puma, Adidas, etc.) Or they should tell Apple, which went from near-death as a desktop/laptop vendor to a company now making most of its money from services. Companies change. They do a mixture of good and bad things. At this point, Microsoft is far, far from the company they were in the 80s and 90s, even if they still do bad things.
- prepend 6y ago> company now making most of its money from services. Nope, they still are a hardware company. 22% from services in the latest quarter .[0] It’s gaining, but still far away from majority services. [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/382260/segments-share-revenue-of-apple/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/382260/segments-share-re...
- smt88 6y agoThat's revenue. Profit is more important to me. An extreme example is when game consoles are sold near (or even below) cost in order to create a user base for game sales. Apple's services have at least twice the margin of their hardware, as far as I've seen[1]. 1. https://www.investopedia.com/apple-s-5-most-profitable-lines-of-business-4684130 https://www.investopedia.com/apple-s-5-most-profitable-lines...